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Amze Emmons

Ark Royal, 2011. Two works on paper

Courtesy of the artist, Philadelphia, PA

Amze Emmons’ Ark Royal consists of drawings and prints that depict possible refuge flotilla derived from visual mash-ups of appropriated documentary material and field photography. The artist has drafted a visionary possibility to aid and protect those who are or will be displaced by climate disaster. Emmons was struck by the crossing points and similarities between refugee migrations and travel routes of consumer goods, which in turn led to the realization that shipping materials like pallets, crates, barrels, and plastic containers are the same used by refugees to build their boats and shelters. In Ark Royal, Emmons aims to call to our attention this complicated relationship by designing a combined means of nautical refuge and conveyance